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Not a particularly impressive film.

What might in lesser hands have been an aimless, stilted disaster here becomes, thanks to these capable, funny capable actors, a finely observed naturalist comedy of manners.

Ponsoldt's film is more interested in what lies beneath the skin of the men than the covers of the book.

I have to give credit for The Flash understanding it is derivative, repetitive, even repeating elements of its opening for comic effect.

Deadpan absurdity, everyday madness and enlightenment through routine merge in an attempt to answer the big questions of life.

There are the makings of a great film here but too much time is spent telling the story and not enough showing it.

Likely to please younger audiences who will find the simple, fairy story style arc comfortingly familiar and the central protagonist quirkily relatable.

A painful watch.

Why is this so funny? Because it's true.

This scatter-shot approach to comedy has all the sophistication of sticking a 12-bore into a crowd and pulling the trigger. Sure, you're going to hit everyone, but it's not very clever.

Making a movie about a suffering mother who cannot admit that her tether has snapped is a brave endeavor